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by jfb 13y ago
To say nothing of people who want good recommendations on what movie to watch next. This is not something you ever got with Blockbuster, so good riddance, but the loss of neighborhood stores will lead to a constriction in the number of titl
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by jfb 13y ago
The excellent Lost Weekend Video is still a going concern, on Valencia between 21st and 22nd (IIRC).
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by jfb 13y ago
I wonder if this is an opportunity -- the world is not solely composed of moon-shot local social enterprise websites, and worthy businesses are being shut out of the world of cheap money by the prevailing culture. Hmm.
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by jfb 13y ago
But isn't that more the role of traditional sources of capital (banks, &c.) than a SV VC?
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by jfb 13y ago
Pixar and it's not even close.
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by jfb 13y ago
Even the way they (we?) handle non integer scale factors is clever -- pixel doubling and then downscaling, rather than upscaling directly.
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by jfb 13y ago
What don't you like about OS X's Hi-DPI scaling? It works pretty sensibly for me -- I actually prefer to run my rMBP at ¼ native, because the text is astonishingly sharp.
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by jfb 13y ago
This is where OS X's hi-dpi support is so great; the UI elements in e.g. Aperture are rendered at 2x, so they are beautifully sharp, and the image is rendered at 1x.
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by jfb 13y ago
Who owns the filename? If the user owns the filename, than it is incumbent on the system to be able to handle arbitrary names. If the user doesn't own the name, then the system must not expose the name to the user. c.f. filename exte
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by jfb 13y ago
I remember telling a friend's kid, in ~2000, that if she really wanted a totally secure future, that she should quit computer programming and become a riparian lawyer. I maintain that this is still the best advice I've ever given.
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by jfb 13y ago
Of course, there's a fourth quadrant: "agile as understood and implemented in the real world ", and that probably has as much to do with the way Agile is promoted as gargantuan waterfall catastrophes do with '80s style
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by jfb 13y ago
People block Flash for a variety of reasons; ads are only one. Drive-by security breaches and terrible energy performance are two others.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's free for anyone with supported hardware, by the commonly accepted definition of "free".
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by jfb 13y ago
"Afterall, the MacBook Air wasn't a competitor to the netbooks - it was a competitor to the ultrabooks being touted by Intel et al." This is backwards: the original MBA was introduced in 2008, and Intel only introduced the &q
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by jfb 13y ago
I think it's possible that the low-end Android tablets (e.g., the $99 generic ones, not the Nexus or high-end Samsungs) a) make up a huge majority of the number of units sold and b) are used in a very different way than the iPad is. Fo
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by jfb 13y ago
Apple and Microsoft are in almost entirely disjoint businesses, anyway. I doubt that there's much useful analogizing to be done about their current respective situations. FULL DISCLOSURE: Apple employee.
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by jfb 13y ago
But that's hardly revolutionary, given that the HDX is ~20% smaller .
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by jfb 13y ago
The Retina Mini is $399. So, yeah, it's more than the N7, but it's not twice as much.
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by jfb 13y ago
They lack the delivery capability. They might have ~20? ICBMs and no SSBMs. They are very clearly determined to become a regional power rather than an intercontinental one.
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by jfb 13y ago
Two problems with this: the first Yglesias covers in the OP; the second, that China could nuke us, even if they wanted to.
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by jfb 13y ago
How is that in any way a solution? You have removable storage right up until you use it?
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by jfb 13y ago
Much simpler an explanation is that having removable storage means that everything in the stack needs to understand removable storage and that that imposes a cost on library authors, app developers, and most problematically, on users. Bette
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by jfb 13y ago
Stick around here long enough, and you'll get to see it happen.
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by jfb 13y ago
Nobody is arguing for boilerplate . The idea that less is more, holding quality equal, is nonsensical. Of course, as documentation isn't free, you can't hold quality equal, so it's immaterial -- nobody is ever going to be pr
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by jfb 13y ago
No. The best kind of documentation is the kind that explains the non-obvious decisions taken in the code. Or the kind that outlines the interactions between function x and states 1-3. Or the kind left behind by some poor bastard archaeologi
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah. What Google has done is succeeded at funding their platform of choice without having to charge humans for it, fundamentally altering people's relationships with computer technology. That it happens to (from some angles) look like
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by jfb 13y ago
Is Path particularly well-regarded?
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by jfb 13y ago
It seems like the kind of thing that well-intentioned people can get into without too terribly much capital, only to have things go totally non-linear on them. My own minimal needs have always been perfectly well met by Linode, so I recomme
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by jfb 13y ago
Yes, but. Having a non-offensive business model guarantees nothing about the quality of the services provided -- they are orthogonal concerns. I would be very happy to pay for what I like, rather than be subjected to the grotesqueries of ad
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by jfb 13y ago
To Adblock? I use a system level HTTP proxy (Glimmerblocker [1] on OS X, Privoxy elsewhere [2]) because I don't want to encounter ads in e.g. my RSS reader. To an advertising-based business model? Unclear. [1] http://glimmer

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